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With The Golden Apples, published in 1949, Welty began being praised for her command of narrative technique. The Optimist's Daughter, 1972, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This year, a year that seems to be her year, she is on the bestseller lists with One Writer's Beginnings. The sun is indeed shining bright on her old Jackson home, on Pinehurst Street, where she was saying the other morning, "Do sit down. I'm going to raise a window." She said she was wondering whether she might not have sounded incoherent at a late hour...
...somewhat inaccessible to present day sensibility Composed in the far away dawn of the television era, the play juxtaposes how oppressive the deadening hilarity of sitcom is next to a drama which probes the validity of all its characters feelings. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry impresses any audience with her command over an astonishing range of feeling, she recalls I M Forster at his best and least boring. But immediately one wonders if a Black playwright today, writing after the tumults, disillusion, and stilling of the last two decades, could afford the humanity which Hansberry so richly displays...
...list, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post, were selected by TIME 20 years ago. Among the credentials that TIME took into account: imaginative staff coverage of regional, national and foreign issues; liveliness in writing, layout and graphics; national impact achieved through general enterprise, command of some particular field of coverage or a track record of training top-rank younger journalists...
...best papers, the Post faces the prospect over the next several years of replacing the man who guided it to its present eminence. Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee, 62, has run the Post since 1965 and has given it much of its personality. The eventual change of command may relieve the paper of some of its combative impetuosity. With luck, it will retain its vivacity and panache...
...with Fitzgerald's lost chapter. Her anger when he tries to sneak away with it makes no sense. Her character is ultimately unbelievable, as is that of the instructor, who conveniently falls in love with the granddaughter and forgets Fitzgerald. Worth is, as ever and always, in supreme command of the stage, and Channing and Daniels are both capable performers. John Tillinger's direction is competent and Designer Oliver Smith's Manhattan town house is lovely. The problem here is the playwright, who should have followed the master's plan...